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The worst concern I have about any kind of collapse is the American faith in growth and competition. We could easily work together to cover clean water, food and housing in a major shift of conditions. But I think our own social values have become so competitive and insecure that defense and fear will dominate.

Even though this recent viewing has confirmed it's no longer my favorite Miyazaki film, I still really love it.

Wow, exactly what's wrong with society that this artist speaks. You feel very concerned with ranking and "sorting* - and how can you think that is Love? Heaven has always been described as an endless large path, in all cultures, and trying to "sort" and "organize" it always is an act of cutting and shrinking.

Where does your Love end? Which line on the sand? Which hour of the clock? How many forgiveness are you willing to do?

Our current civilization is at a dead end. What we really need is young people who can see far into the future, telling people that they don't really need to go buy Louis Vuitton products and so forth, that it's okay to go back to the days of shopping with an old-style shopping basket in hand. Who needs video games? And we don't need to be using all this electricity. It's even okay to take a bath only once every two days.

I agree with this strongly. I think Martin Luther King, Jr also would agree.

A homeless person can not have a nice bath and French Perfume in expensive tiny bottles. He is protesting the segregation we do, the sorting we do.

I find Love themes in these films to be importing the deep of western - the European ideals of the Troubadour artists.

Choice Marriage is imported to Japan. And most westerners don't even know it's roots, and very few films deal with it. Only Yesterday is the most direct film I know, with The Rose song being an excellent troubadour-education (celebrating Truth concerning Love and Psyche).

Like Wagner reworking Tristan and Isolde, I see this same thing going on with Studio.

So I wouldn't say the film is exactly anti-capitalist in the political sense of the word, but it's against money over nature (which capitalism rewards,) money over humanity (which capitalism rewards,) and a life dictated by greed (which capitalism rewards.) It's less of a "smash the system, no more government" kind of anti-capitalist message, and more of a critique of the kind of behavior the system enables, and how ultimately it can foster stagnation of character and a life of servitude.

That's pretty much exactly what I see. But you mute the "smash the system", I think there is more of that from my view. My view recognized the history they honor, the Troubadour tradition.

New York Professor Joseph Campbell in 1986:

The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this was the idea that finally turned that world into something like a wasteland, a land where people were living inauthentic lives, never doing a thing they truly wanted to because the supernatural laws required them to live as directed by their clergy. In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not properly theirs but have been put upon them as inescapable laws. This is a killer. The twelfth-century troubadour poetry of courtly love was a protest against this supernaturally justified violation of life's joy in truth. So too the Tristan legend and at least one of the great versions of the legend of the Grail, that of Wolfram von Eschenbach. The spirit is really the bouquet of life. It is not something breathed into life, it comes out of life. This is one of the glorious things about the mother-goddess religions, where the world is the body of the Goddess, divine in itself, and divinity isn't something ruling over and above a fallen nature. There was something of this spirit in the medieval cult of the Virgin, out of which all the beautiful thirteenth-century French cathedrals arose.

Your posting is about "Love", and arranged marriage by money - capitalism - is the most corrupt. Romeo and Juliet is against this (parents not agreeing on money or culture reasons, ignoring Love). I suggest a study of Manjun and Leila - Arabic example. And in Oriental religion you have a forbidden love the same.

Troubadour love is celebration of what all other cultures declared forbidden - because it was too difficult and painful. These guys are hard-core.

Marriage for money is just as shit as marriage for politics ("Game of Thrones").

You know - I saw Terminator Genesis yesterday - going in with a lot of reviews and perhaps 400 individual comment readings. if I had to put a number on it, about 6 hours of thinking and listening to people here on Reddit.

I didn't find it dumb at all! I can find creative and complex reasons for almost all the story lines and chocies. It's twisted and turned due to recursive time travel. And frankly, it has pauses that keep the "destroy all of California - like The Hulk" kind of muted. The Terminators are not "Hulk" creatures in a rage - they are logical and precision-guided munitions.

I actually felt a desire to discuss why so many hate the film for it's shallowness. Where exactly is it so shallow?

yha, I can confirm, people did hack some property (setting) to turn on the LTE - the chipset hardware existed, but no antenna was hooked up (relates to cost, government certification - or perhaps even the hardware was an early version that was unreliable, or just strictly product profits [when one color of paint is "special edition" and costs more]

I agree. the resolution and RAM just don't go together. The cost difference of an extra 1GB is likely only $10 and the battery life less than 2%.

Does it have USB 3.0 and host capability?

I think a tablet of year 2015 should be aimed at desktop replacement. I'm not asking for everything... but 2GB of RAM on high DPI GPU (without dedicated RAM) is foolish. And USB 3.0 should be standard in 2015.

"I will participate in the game. It is a wonderful, wonderful opera -- except that it hurts."

Affirmation is difficult. We always affirm with conditions. I affirm the world on condition that it gets to be the way Santa Claus told me it ought to be. But affirming it the way it is -- that's the hard thing, and that is what rituals are about. Ritual is group participation in the most hideous act, which is the act of life -- namely, killing and eating another living thing. We do it together, and this is the way life is. The hero is the one who comes to participate in life courageously and decently, in the way of nature, not in the way of personal rancor, disappointment, or revenge.